Critical Reasoning

Dear Friends,

I was having problems in answering the following question.

Many winemakers use cork stoppers; but cork stoppers can leak, crumble, or become moldy,
so that those winemakers must often discard a significant proportion of their inventory of
bottled wine. Bottlemaster plastic stoppers, which cannot leak, crumble, or mold, have long
been available to winemakers, at a price slightly higher than that of traditional cork stoppers.
Cork prices, however, are expected to rise dramatically in the near future. Clearly, therefore,
winemakers who still use cork but wish to keep production costs from rising will be
forced to reconsider plastic stoppers. And since the wine-buying public's association of
plastic stoppers with poor-quality wine is weakening, there is an excellent chance that the
Bottlemaster plastic stopper will gain an increased share of the marked for winebottle
stoppers. In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the
following roles?
A. The first is a judgment that has been advanced in support of a position that the argument
opposes; the second is the main conclusion of the argument.
B. The first is a judgment that has been advanced in support of a position that the argument
opposes; the second is a conclusion drawn in order to support the main conclusion of the
argument.
C. The first is the main conclusion of the argument; the second provides evidence in support of
that main conclusion.
D. The first is the main conclusion of the argument; the second is a restatement of that main
conclusion.
E. The first is a conclusion drawn in order to support the main conclusion of the argument; the
second is that main conclusion.


Please help.

OA after some discussions.

My choice was option C

Regards
Deano.